Staff profiles

Philippa Cordingley

Philippa CordingleyPhilippa Cordingley is the founder and Chief Executive of CUREE. As adviser to the DES, the General Teaching Council, the National College (formerly the NCSL), and the QCDA she has instigated, designed and developed a range of strategies, policy and support programmes to promote research and evidence-informed practice. Philippa has led the CUREE teams in a range of projects including the development of an evidence based National Framework for Mentoring and Coaching.

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Paul Crisp

Paul Crisp is the Managing Director of CUREE and directs its business affairs, He has strategic responsibility for knowledge management and ICT projects and those principally located in the post-schools sector. He is currently director of the surveys and data strategy strands of the Building the Evidence Base project for QCDA; and of the learning resources element of the project for SSAT for 14-19 Workforce Support.

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Alison HalfordAlison is passionate about contributing to the improvement of the education sector and enabling powerful learning experiences for youngsters. Alison's experience includes project management and facilitation, scoping and delivering professional development. She also has Chartered Institute of Marketing qualifications and experience in using the full range of marketing and communication tools. Alison’s 20 years of experience have been predominantly focussed on supporting the public sector including the Teachers CPD team at the DCSF, the Gifted and Talented team and the Innovations Unit.

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Julie Temperley

Julie Temperley

Julie Temperley is an Associate of CUREE. Julie was part of the team which developed CUREE's Effective Mentoring and Coaching (EM&C) blended learning resources and she is now working with colleagues to design a range of training programmes to support the use of the resources in different contexts.

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Lisa BradburyLisa Bradbury is CUREE’s Principal Professional Learning Manager and leads on the planning and facilitation of CPD especially mentoring and coaching and use of research based CPD resources, the evaluation and accreditation of CPD and the development and design of research based CPD resources as well as Quality Assurance.

Lisa has facilitated development programmes for Local Authorities, groups of schools, SSAT and the National College as well as leading projects for CWDC, QCDA, TDA and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.

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Miranda BellMiranda Bell is an Associate Director of CUREE. She has held senior management positions in higher education, specialising in communications, marketing, networks and partnership development. She has subsequently been consistently active in communicating good practice across education sectors, as an editor, research manager and commissioner, consultant and adviser. She has also worked internationally.

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Christine Loth

Christine joined CUREE in January 2004, initially as PA to Philippa Cordingley then to both Philippa and Paul Crisp during January 2007.

Christine joining CUREE was a totally new vocation for her as her wealth of secretarial/PA experience had been gained by working many years for senior executives within various strands of the Motor Industry.

In addition to her support for the leadership team, Christine is a valued member of the infrastructure team.

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Colin Isham

Colin Isham joined CUREE in February 2005, and now leads the content team as Principal Research Manager. Colin’s background is in foreign languages and he taught German, French and English as a Foreign Language in an FE college and went on to become head of department. He is currently studying for a PhD, researching attitudes to bilingual children’s language development.

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Corinne Oldknow

Corinne OldknowCorinne joined CUREE in 2005, working as an Administration Assistant and Executive Assistant before being promoted to Office Manager in August 2010.

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Donald EvansDonald joined CUREE in March 2001. He is a key contributor to the General Teaching Council's 'Research of the Month' website and to the 'Research Informed Practice' area of the DfES Standards website, for both of which he writes summaries of high-quality research. Donald has contributed to a number of EPPI Centre Reviews of Continuing Professional Development conducted by CUREE.

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